discuss: small demo page
Subject:
Re: small demo page
From:
Mysid ####@####.####
Date:
19 Aug 2005 22:18:10 -0000
Message-Id: <6eb799ab050819151748b8f7b6@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/19/05, jdd ####@####.#### wrote:
> anyway, any wiki engine produces html for the browser, this
> is another way of choice.
Right, and MediaWiki lets you do things like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&printable=yes
(to get a print-friendly version)
as-opposed to say just
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&printable=0
Note differences in how URLs are rendered.
I must say I don't think think mediawiki -> docbook would
be advisable.
There are just too many things you can represent in HTML
that cannot be represented in docbook.
Wiki markup languages often includes some html, and
for included templates (even on MediaWiki) some inline CSS,
font, and other presentation controls, are usually specified --
things that would be out of the scope of the fairly restrictive
language of docbook.
I would imagine HTML -> PS/PDF conversion filters already
exist, though, the ones that are popular right now might not
be the best choices for producing high quality
printed output
--
-Mysid
